The importance of nanometric passivating films on cathodes for Li-Air batteries

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12483-12493

  Adams, Brian D ^a   Black, Robert ^a   Radtke, Claudio ^a   Williams, Zack ^a   Mehdi, B Layla ^b   Browning, Nigel D ^b   Nazar, Linda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cathodes; electrodes; electron transfer; lithium oxygen batteries; lithium peroxide; surface passivation

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CARBON; CARBON FILMS; CATHODES; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM-AIR BATTERIES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION; OXIDE FILMS; OXIDE MINERALS; PASSIVATION; PEROXIDES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TITANIUM CARBIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; ELECTROCHEMICAL OVERPOTENTIALS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; LITHIUM PEROXIDES; LITHIUM-OXYGEN BATTERIES; ONLINE MASS SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84919754354     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505337p     Document Type: Article

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